Rugao, Jiangsu, the world's longevity town, health and well-being, ranked sixth in the world. According to THE WHO requirement, the standard for longevity areas is more than 75 centenarians per million population. According to the 2019 statistics of the Rugao Municipal Office on Aging, the total number of centenarians among the 1.4528 million people in Rugao reached 440, among the centenarians, 92 were males, 348 were females, and 52 were over 105 years old. There are more than 4,000 elderly people over 90 years old, and more than 40,000 people over 80 years old.
Let's take a look at the three meals a day of jiangsu Rugao family, love to eat coarse grains, no wonder it has become the home of the world's longevity!
1. Breakfast
Rugao family breakfast generally love to eat small dumplings, small dumplings are many Rugao people's breakfast favorite, tender and juicy filling, bite a mouthful of aroma overflowing between the teeth, plus a cup of soy milk, a good day to start. Or come to a bowl of tofu brain, tofu brain taste tender, high nutritional value, rich in high protein, staple food plus a freshly baked hot cake, that taste really called an addiction. Soy milk and fritters are also often eaten by locals for breakfast.
Rugao people also love to eat noodles for breakfast, a simple bowl of fish soup noodles, but how many people are hungry and screaming. As the most famous special snack in Rugao, noodles are not loved, and a bowl of noodles is paired with a poached egg to satisfy your taste buds. Milky white fish soup, pure natural Yangtze River fish boiled, delicious and delicious! There are also special native eggs, dipped in a few drops of soy sauce, which is the taste of memory.
Locals also love to eat wontons for breakfast, soup made of big bones, rich in nutrition, delicious taste, eat a bowl of hot wontons in the morning with a poached egg, the mood will be comfortable all day. The simple taste of ravioli makes many Rugao people's hearts and minds haunt, and many people directly buy ready-made bags of wontons to take home to eat.
For Rugao office workers, if the time is very rushed in the morning, they will buy a rice ball for breakfast. Rugao's rice balls are divided into purple rice and white rice, as well as sweet and salty, and even a little spicy. A small rice ball contains sausages, meat floss, fritters, ham sausages, tea dishes, etc., and eating one is enough to fill your stomach.
The elderly in Rugao love to drink porridge for breakfast, and the staple food comes from Rugao baked cake, speaking of Rugao baked cake, quite elaborate. The first is to rub the puff pastry. The burnt cake is not in oil, mainly because the crisp should be wiped evenly, and it should be willing to rub it several times, and the stick should be rolled out a few times, so that it is refreshing to eat. The second is to eat it freshly. Freshly baked bread, steaming, the color crab shell yellow, sesame seeds dense, holding the hand hot, eating fragrant, crisp, crispy, wonderful.
2. Lunch
The staple food of the Rugao family is rice, noodles and mixed grains, rice has three kinds of indica, japonica and glutinous, and the public loves to eat rice (japonica rice). Glutinous rice is commonly known as tea rice, which is used to steam cakes, wrap rice dumplings, rub rounds, make pulp lees (sake brewing), brew rice wine, etc., and are generally not used to cook rice. In the old days, it was difficult for most people to eat several meals of pure rice all year round, even if the farmers with better families usually ate the rice porridge made of rice and a small amount of rice after threshing, only when the rice was harvested and the new valley appeared, some rice was milled, and the whole family ate a new meal of rice to taste new.
Now the living conditions are better, Rugao people still love to eat coarse grains, lunch Rugao people love to use buckwheat to make a variety of food, in addition to soba noodles, buckwheat cake, buckwheat flat dough is also a common food. When making it, the buckwheat flour is first mixed into a dough shape, and the hands are patted into the shape of the lid of the teacup, and most of the fillings are greens, cabbage, celery, etc. Some people also add a little shrimp to it, which is more delicious. Buckwheat flat dough is generally eaten boiled or steamed.
Rugao people also love to eat radish, Rugao radish cultivation has a history of thousands of years, after long-term selection and breeding to form a unique breed of "duck egg head", "neck pinch", "100 days". With its exquisite taste of thin skin, tender flesh, juicy, sweet taste and less lignin, and no residue after chewing, it has won the reputation of "Sai Xue Pear" and the pear of Laiyang, the apple of Yantai, and the praise of the radish peel of Rugao. Dried radish is also very delicious, such as gao radish is rich in vitamin C, other ingredients such as vitamin B2, calcium, iron, phosphorus content are higher than apples and pears, extremely rich in nutrition. After eating, it has the effects of quenching thirst, extinguishing fire, lowering qi, widening, removing phlegm, and aiding digestion.
Rugao family lunch also love to eat black collapse vegetables, also known as Rugao collapse vegetables, lie on the stomach vegetables (Rugao dialect), named for the growth of the land, is one of the main varieties of small cabbage in the winter and spring of Rugao City, but also Rugao unique vegetable varieties, delicious taste, fat and tender leaves, can be fried, soup, cold mix, delicious color, rich nutrition. Each 100 grams of fresh leaves contains up to 70 mg of vitamin C, 180 mg of calcium and minerals such as iron, phosphorus and magnesium, and is known as a "vitamin dish" and is favored by people.
The meat dishes of the Rugao family are mainly pigs, cattle, mutton and aquatic products. Rugao people like to eat beef, and there are East Beef Lane and West Beef Lane in the south of Cross Street, which is named after the concentration of beef shops. Rugao is rich in aquatic resources, the people have always sung "December fish fresh", with the change of seasons, a variety of fresh fish on the market, become a delicious dish on the table. Rugao's clams are known as "the freshest in the world".
3. Dinner
Rugao family dinner usually love to drink porridge, Rugao porridge culture is a major feature, in Rugao everywhere is porridge shops, Rugao people eat porridge is mainly cornmeal porridge, barley grits porridge. Diet is not far from coarse grains. Before liberation, the staple food of the Rugao people was mainly coarse grains, and the Rugao people, whose lives improved after liberation, liked to eat coarse grains at both ends for three days. Looking at the food culture of other longevity towns in the world, coarse grains occupy an irreplaceable position. "Grits porridge, rice bottom, one drink to ninety-nine.". 94% of the centenarians in Rugao eat porridge every morning and evening.
Rugao family loves to eat green vegetables for dinner, called cabbage or horse ear vegetables in the south, and small rape, leeks and spinach in the north. Rapeseed is rich in folic acid, calcium and potassium and other minerals, these nutrients can enhance the body's resistance, is the guardian of human health. In addition, rapeseed has a blood-activating effect, and regular consumption can help protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health. Regular consumption of leeks is good for health. At the same time, leeks are rich in dietary fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and have a good effect on preventing constipation in the elderly.
The elderly generally eat one or two pieces of sausage or one or two pieces of ham at night, such as Gao sausage has a long history and is one of the well-known sausage varieties in the country. Its production began during the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 100 years. Rugao sausage strips are neat, the meat is tight, the color is bright, the saltiness is moderate, the flavor is rich, the nutrition is rich, the meat is chewed but not old, the fat meat is oily but not greasy, which can be comparable with cantonese sausages, also known as Rushi sausages.
Rugao ham, along with Zhejiang Jinhua ham and Yunnan Xuanwei ham, is one of the three famous legs in the country, called north leg. Rugao ham thin skin fine claws, shaped like a serpent, red like fire, unique flavor, with color, incense, taste, shape, "four musts" famous at home and abroad. The entire production cycle of ham is about 10 months, generally in the winter when the frost drops, and the temperature is 2-100C as the best production time. Thin skin and fine claws, shaped like bamboo leaves, pipa, thin and fat, red and white bright, unique flavor, color, fragrance, taste, shape are good, can be stored for many years, can be eaten in all seasons.
Why do the Rugao people in Nantong, Jiangsu Province live so long?
1. Medical conditions
There are 75 hospitals and health centers in Rugao, 1 maternal and child health center, and 1 CDC. The city has 8356 beds in hospitals and health centers, 8966 health technicians, including 5240 practicing (assistant) physicians and 3502 registered nurses. Consolidate and improve the new agricultural cooperation policy, the city's medical participation rate reached 100%; the city has built a total of 5 community health service centers, 465 community health service stations, and 100% coverage of administrative villages.
2. Pension conditions
The city has 55 pension institutions of various types with a total number of 9657 beds; the city has 18 homes for the elderly with 5497 beds. Among the 4,720 five-guarantee recipients in the city's rural areas, 4,398 people have implemented centralized support.
3. Eating habits
For diet, the diet structure of the world's longevity township reflects a high degree of consistency, eating more grains and fruits, eating less processed foods, and eating small amounts. Studies have proved that the main culprits leading to the current state of human health and obesity are refined carbohydrates such as rice, noodles and sugar.
Conclusion
Longevity is affected by many factors, and modern medicine generally believes that 10% of a person's life expectancy depends on heredity, 5% depends on social factors, 25% depends on medical conditions, 5% depends on the climatic environment, and 50% depends on dietary patterns. Today, the world's life expectancy has increased by dozens of years compared with before, and the most important thing to ignore is the progress of medicine, including the development of various vaccines.
In the past, many people left because of an ordinary infectious disease. Smallpox, plague, cholera, meningococcal meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, rabies, tetanus, leptospirosis, malaria, scarlet fever, measles, rubella, typhoid fever, dengue fever, bacterial dysentery and many more. The main reason for the low life expectancy in Africa now is these infectious diseases, the lack of relative vaccines, poor medical care and, of course, food shortages.
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